windows-media-player

What's the actual windows media player maximum banner width?

When looking at the documentation for the banner tag in windows media metafiles all the documentation says there is a maximum size of 194 x 32 pixels. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd562478(v=VS.85).aspx However, when experimenting with larger images they seem to be displaying correctly. Is there some real undocumented limita...

windows media player command arguments

Hi There, Is it possible to launch a mp3 or wmv file using windows media player at a specified time offset? e.g I watched 10 seconds of video and closed it. the next time my app launches the video it starts playing a timeline of 10 seconds. The videos and mp3s are being launched in windows mobile 5 and 6 apps. ...

Why is my DirectShow-based video player producing choppy results, while WMP plays the same videos smoothly?

I am having problems writing a good C++/DirectX9/DirectShow video player. I have tried using the DirectShow samples and modifying them. I've tried VMR9 and TextureRenderer. In all my attempts the video playback is choppy and jerky. In one case I got it nearly smooth, but the audio was out of sync! Windows Media Player always manages ...

Distributing windows media player 11 with .net based application

I am developing a WPF based application using .NET 3.5 SP1, which required windows media player 11 to be installed on end user machine. For pain free installation I want that the setup should handle everything. Is there any redistributable package of WMP 11 is available? In other words, What is the best option to solve this problem? ...

Embedded Windows Media Player loaded in QtWebKit: set volume does not work

hi, when loading this html (html is also here) in the Qt 4.6 Demo Browser, pressing "Set Volume = 80" fails without raising an exception. Notes: The same html works fine in Chrome and Firefox. Happens on Windows, but works fine on Mac. Fails also with Qt 4.7 Beta Demo, and in Arora browser. Any idea? ...

Preview JPG for a windows media player.

I'd like to have a JPG preview for my simple .wmv player. Any ideas? Here it is... <div id="embed"> <OBJECT id='mediaPlayer1' width="360" height="240" classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95' codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52...

Is it possible to hide the UserControl in Chrome/Firefox for Windows media player?

I'm trying to remove the user control (only show the video frame) using Windows Media Player inside Chrome, but without success. The code I use: <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="..." NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="238" autosize="0" stretchtofit="0" ShowControls="0" ShowStatusBar="0" ...

Looking for a way to preview an image in my wmv player

Shouldn't be to hard, but I have little experience with this stuff...I want to have a preview image instead of just black for my windows media player. here's what I'm working with: <div id="embed"> <OBJECT id='mediaPlayer1' width="360" height="240" classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95' ...

MSN/Live Messenger Song with media player

How do i programically tell MSN/Live Messenger what song i am playing? I found this but that seems to be more about protocol and i just want to know how it works on a IPC level. ...

Windows media player control embedded into HTML - change of control's size after starting playback

I use the following html to show media player on the web-page rendered in IE 8: <OBJECT type="application/x-ms-wmp" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="200" height="200"> After starting playback the size of the control stays the same. However, when I create the control dynamically in JavaScript, after starting...

What Types of Video Can MediaElement Play?

I'm looking for detailed information on what decides the formats of media that MediaElement can play, I can't seem to find any definitive source. I've read somewhere that if it can be played in WMP then MediaElement can play it. Is this true? If it is, then my next question is where can I find the capabilities and limitations of WMP? And...

Why does Windows Media Player sometimes fail to include the appropriate cookies in requests for content when it is being used via Internet Explorer?

We have a site hosted in IIS6 that we built using the .NET 1.1 Framework. Users who go to this site use Internet Explorer exclusively and log into it using Forms authentication. Within the site, users can navigate to a specific page that has an iFrame embedded in it. This iFrame points to another virtual directory hosted on the same serv...

pause and resume Windows Media Player in C#

I'm making an VoIP application and I just want to be able to pause and resume (and probably check the player state) of Windows Media Player. Solutions I've found on SO refer to WMPLib but this is for embedding WMP in my .NET application. I simply just want to pause and resume the current instance if there is one. Is there documentation f...

Enqueuing songs in windows mediaplayer

Anyone successfully managed to queue a song to the current playlist in windows mediaplayer (running instance) (Windows 7/Vista). I've researched everything from different commandline arguments, different process.start verbs to what the enqueue context menu uses in regedit but nothing seems to work... If anyone can figure this one It'...

How do I add an audio track to my "Play To" list using C# in Windows 7?

I poked around for a while on Google and Windows Media player looking for a way to do this, but I can't and I think I should be able to, so I'm asking the fine people of StackOverflow. I'd like to be able to write some code to do one of the following: Add an audio file from my WMP media library to the current "Play To" playlist. Add a...

Embed Windows media player in flex

Hi all, I have a mp4 file which is to be used in an application. Currently i am in the stage of figuring out the technology to be used for this job. I am familiar with flex and am hoping that i be able to use it for the application. But i can not figure out a way to play the file in flex. I have been able to play the file only in window...

Frame Callbcak for AxWindowsMediaPlayer

Hi, how can I set a callback for AxWindowsMediaPlayer in order to process videos frame-by-frame? ...

Getting windows media player currently playing song

Is there a way I can get currently plaaying song from Windows Media Player by C# with .NET? Any API that will work with all Windows Media Player versions? ...

A problem with opened file handles...

Now I use Windows Media Player SDK 9 to play AVI files in my desktop application. It works well on Windows XP but when I try to run it on Windows 7 I caught an error - I can not remove AVI file immediately after playback. The problem is that there are opened file handles exist. On Windows XP I have 2 opened file handles during the playin...

get currently playing song name from media player through java programming

hi Is there any way through which i can get the name of the song being played in my window media player using java programming. ...